Cressida, Dorothea and Violetta

[winterdawning]

What do you think of our final shortlist?

Awful.

Dorothea is a superb name.

super!

Apologies for my slowness today!

Dreadful.

G.Heyer fan, are you?

OK.

poncey beyond belief

Dorothea is sweet, although I prefer Dorothy.

The others are way too flowery for my tastes.
I do know a Polish girl named Wioleta (Vee-oh-ketta) which she carries off well, but the anglicised version is just too floaty and flowery.

Ex-colleague of mine named DD Dorothea and I'm afraid (City trading floor - boys will be boys) it became known as Diarrhea.

Not that keen on the others. Prefer Viola or Celia

I'm with kittywise
Not my cup of tea at all.

I love Cressida - we would use it but it clashes with our surname. Not so keen on the other two.

No NO and No

I'm in Argentina, lots of little baby Violetas here. Very nice. Shortens to Viole (pronounced vee oh lay)

Bit chavvy if you ask me

Dorothea is cool but only if you are a Bon Jovi fan (shes his missus )

No, no and yes.

I prefer Violet to Violetta though.

Cressida was one of the 'Modern Parents' in Viz.

Dreadful.

Oh God. Sorry - really terrible. I actually laughed out loud and assumed this was a joke. sorry.

Cressida - a car model of Toyota.
Violetta - just too too dahling and operaish
Dorothea - one of my literary heroines ( Middlemarch) but she will become "Dot" "Dotty" "Doe" "Dee" - that sort of thing.

You DO live in ponce-ville don't you.

Prefer Theodora or Dora to Dorothea.
Cressida is a Toyota, as LordPanofthePeaks says.
I would go for Violette instead of Violetta. Violet and its variations wouldn't be my first choice, though. Prefer Valentina.

the op didn't come back then?

I don't like any of them, sorry.